PDF OCR Alternatives

PDF OCR is described as 'Software that converts scanned PDF documents into editable text files in just two clicks. Its OCR engine operates 92% faster than other software, giving users the option to select specific pages for OCR' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PDF OCR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, iPhone, Mac and Android apps. The best PDF OCR alternative is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PDF OCR are Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF, GImageReader and OpenScan.

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  1. Transym OCR icon

    Transym OCR

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    Transym OCR (TOCR) is a leading provider of highly sophisticated, accurate and reliable optical character recognition software for developers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Image To Text icon

    Image To Text

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    ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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  4. Smart Scanner icon

    Smart Scanner

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    48h sale! Just take a photo of a text with phone number, e-mail address or URL and immediately call, write e-mail or open URL in Safari. Or just scan and OCR any text.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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    ABBYY FineReader PDF

    Optical recognition software boasting unmatched text accuracy converts scanned documents to editable Word, Excel, or searchable PDFs while preserving layout. Supports 190 languages, simplifies processes with automated tasks, and ...

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  6. TextDetective icon

    TextDetective

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    Text Detective finds and reads text in printed documents within seconds using your iPhone’s camera. The detected text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even stores all the scanned text in a history, which allows you to refer...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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  7. OCR Online icon

    OCR Online

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    Advanced OCR (optical character recognition) web application for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents and digital photographs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. OCR Pro+ icon

    OCR Pro+

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    A great way to scan documents and convert the information to text.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  10. Anyline icon

    Anyline

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    Anyline is a mobile text recognition SDK enabling developers to build text recognition apps without having any knowledge about OCR.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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    • Unity
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  11. PDF Parser icon

    PDF Parser

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    Extract PDF data to JSON format with our automated tool. No manual intervention is required.

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. LensOCR icon

    LensOCR

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    Extract easy and fast any text on your Mac's screen.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  13. Text UP icon

    Text UP

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    This mobile scanner can edit, send or store any text information from photography. You can just make a photo of the bill, instruction, check, buildings with signs, a page of a book or anything else, and use this text information as you like, right away or later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
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  14. Text-R icon

    Text-R

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    Simple optical text recognition (OCR) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. SearchOCR icon

    SearchOCR

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    Searching for a specific image in a folder of thousands can be a daunting task, and traditional search engines are often limited to searching only by filename. That's where SearchOCR comes in. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows our software to search for...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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